Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-10-28
KATY'S TRIUMPH.
BY ANDERSON z. LOVE.

"Oh. it is splendid! I could not have
suited myself half so we'll, had been
left to choose"
"But you have not seen the wine
cellar yet 1t is treasure of it's kind
Let's 60 down again.
They went down the stairs together,
he talking gaily, she with a troubled
look on her fuce. After duly admiring
the place, she put timid hand on his
arm, and said, "But, Arthur, dear, let's
have no wine in it,"
"Why?" he asked, i surprise.
Because I have resolved, if am
ever the mistress OF house, there
shall be no liquors kept in it-no social
glasses for friends"
"Why Katy, you are unreasonable. l
did not know you carried your temper
ance opinions so far as that. OF course
I shall keep wine in my house, and en-
terrain my friends with it, too"
She raised her face appealingly.
arthur" she said, in tone of voice
which he knew how to interpret,
Arthur's brow grew clouded.
"But you cannot fear for me?" he
said, with half-offended pride.
II mast fear for you, Arthur, if you
begin US he did. And 1 fear for others
besides-for the sons, and husbands,
and fathers who may learn at our
cheerful boards to love the poison that
shall STAY them"
They went up the steps and sat on q
sofa in the dining-room for few mo.
ments, while Katy put on her hat and
drew on her gloves.
Mo
necessary that we should repeat all
that wos said on both sides. It ended
at last as similar discussions have ended
before. Neither was willing to yield
Katy, because she felt that her whole
future happiness might be involved in
it; Arthur, because he thought it would
be giving way to woman's whims, and
would sacrifice too much of his popular.
ity with his friends.
He had bought his house, paid for it.
and furnished it handsomely, and in Q
few weeks was to bring Katy as it's mis-,
tress. All the afternoon they had
been looking over it together, happy
as two birds with newly finished nest
But when Arthur closed the door and
put the key in his pocket, in the chill,
waning light of the December after
noon, and gave Katy his arm to see he1
home, it was all "broken up" between
them, and notice, "To Let" was put
over the door of the pretty house the
very next morning.
1t was the most foolish thing to do;
but then lovers can always find some.
thing to quarrel about.
They parted with a cool Good even.
ing," at the door of katy's lodging.
house. She went up to her room t.
cry; he went home hurt and angry
but secretly resolving to see her again,
and give her chance to say that she
was in the wrong. He would wait 6
few days, however; it would not do to
let her see that he was in hurry tc
make it up"
He did wait, nearly q week, and
when he called at the modest lodging
house, where he had been want to visi,
80 often, he was told that Miss Gardi
ner had been gone three days.
"Gone where?" he asked, slow to be-
lieve.
"She did not tell me, sir. She sale
she was not coming back. Her aunt
lives at Bristol"
He then took the next train to Bris
toll, and Investigated; but neither
there, nor i'll any other place,
though he searched for months after
wards, did he find sign or trace OF Kat,
Gardiner.
All this happened moro than a yea,
before / saw Katy; but we three FAC
tory girls" who lodged at Mrs How
ellis with her, of course knew nothing
about it. She came to the factory anc
applied for work. The Superintendent
thought her too delicate for such labor,
!, but she persisted; and in fact, she i'm.
, proved in health, spirits, and look.
after she became used to the work ant
simple fare of the factory girls.
She was stranger to us all, and j
seemed likely that She would remain
so. But one day Mary Bascoms dres
} caught in a part of the machinery, ant
, before any one else could think what t,
do, Katy had sprang to her side, anc
pulled her away by main strength from
the terrible danger that threatened her
After that, Mary and Lizzie PAYNE ant
I, who were her dearest friends, were
5 Katy's swo1n allies.
We all lodged together then, in tn
big Factory Boarding House." Blu
Katy took it into her head that w
e should have so much nicer times in
private lodging to ourselves; and whel
1 she took anything into her head sin
2 generally carried it through. In les
than week she had found the YER,
place she wanted, arranged matter
with the Superintendent, and had u
;, sheltered under Mrs. Howell's vine an,
fig tree. We four girls were the prou,
possessors of a tolerably large, double
bedded apartment, with queer littl
,, dressingroom attached" and the lit
, erty of the parlor to receive callers in
= "a proviso at which we all laughed.
6 This was "home" to us after the labo
: of the day. Indeed and in truth, Kat
a made the place so charming that "
: forgot we were factory girls" when W
. got to it. She improvised cunning littl
things out Of trides that are usual